Category Archives: Business

We appreciate that it has only been 9 weeks since customers took advantage of our annual maintenance special offer, but already several critical plugins require an update and we are receiving increased requests for maintenance services. A number of customers have asked if this once-a-year update was enough to ensure their site’s ongoing security. The answer…

A WEBSITE FOR $49 PER MONTH? For just $49 per month, our pay-as-you-go Webvert has everything you need to get online, including fast Australian hosting and domain name. Bendigo Web Design is excited to offer its most affordable website package yet; the Pay Monthly website. This innovative pay-as-you-go service was created to be a simple,…

Bendigo Web Design will be open today, tomorrow and Christmas Eve. In fact, other than the 25th, 26th of December and the 1st of January, it’s business as usual. We will be spending Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day away from our computers and mobile phones. Only premium technical support by email will be available…

If a potential customer performs a local search specifically for your business name (i.e. ‘your business name Gove’ or ‘your business name Nhulunbuy’) and your website does not appear on the first couple of pages of Google, you can safely say that your website is not doing it’s job and you are probably losing money.…

Bending over backwards and being so nice to our customers (yes, even the obnoxious ones) for such modest recompense, has finally taken it’s toll and so we’re having a closing down sale. Yay! Bendigo Web Design will no longer accept new clients following this offer period but rest assured, your hosting, domain names, website maintenance…

In a highly competitive job market where it’s important to use every tool at your disposal, from social media and networking events to online job boards, you’ll need more than a few pieces of paper to stand out from the crowd. NB. Although there are some recognised differences between a resumé and a curriculum vitae, for the purposes of this…

Just about every small business owner understands the need to have a website and get found online. However, getting an affordable, quality website can be confusing, time consuming and cost thousands! Bendigo Web Design has developed a simple, affordable and effective website package that meets the needs of tradies and sole traders.

Should you receive an official looking letter from the Domain Renewal Group asking you to renew your domain name (oddly enough), you would be well advised to discard it. It is a very obvious and annoying scam. If your domain name is registered through Bendigo Web Design or Bendigo Web Hosting, then we send invoices…

We all feel the negative effects of a recession but these few tips should help, even if they serve to inspire you to develop your own alternative means of economic survival. Here at Bendigo Web Design, we go the extra mile as a matter of course for all our clients and in addition to offering free hosting and domain names with all web design projects, every new client receives a free meat pie in Winter and deliciously refreshing sorbet during the hot Summer!

Honestly, it shocks me how frequent this question still crops up and it’s 2011.

More often than not, the question comes from a small business owner who, whilst reasonably successful, is probably not a particularly accomplished marketer.

It’s often evident that while I extol the virtues of an online presence, he who posed the question is thinking “this guy is only trying to sell me something I simply don’t need, never have and never will!”

It is really difficult these days to see why any business wouldn’t need some kind of online presence. Every business can benefit from an online presence.